The good news is that ubuntu 10.04 can compile the gtk-xt branch. It seems already broken, though: when I startup XBoard-gtk-xt with Fairy-Max, none of the variants are enabled in the New Variant menu.
The buttons in the Game List window are unwieldly large, and in their current layout dominate the width of the window completely. They should be made a lot smaller, or put in two rows above each other, or simply omitted. (I don't know if there are still people that actualy use these buttons. Normally you simply click the game you want to load. This makes even stepping through the list redundant, but people that want to do it will use the keyboard arrows for that, making the Up/Down buttons the secondary backup system.) There seems to be a problem with exposure events indeed. The Y axis of the eval graph should leave a little bit more margin for the axis labels, as the +5 now is a bit too large to fit. Otherwise it looks nice. The GTK file browser looks very nice. I had a problem that it popped up behind the main window, though (just like the browser I had written myself popped up behind the dialog that summoned it, the second time). The Xt part could be responsible for this, though, the window manager for some reason giving focus back to the main window.
